Academic Co-operation Programme between
European Union and Latin America

HELEN
High Energy Physics LatinAmerican-European Network

Project Objectives

  1. To train young generations of physicists in High Energy Physics, in which Europe is world leader, thereby promoting fundamental physics in Latin American countries and contributing to the modernization of physics education there.
  2. CERN, DESY and Gran Sasso facilities, in particular the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), HERA and their experiments, as well as the Auger Experiment in Argentina are fundamental tools for an advanced training programme.
  3. To facilitate access of Latin American countries to the technological benefits in the accelerator, detector and information technology domains (GRID as an example).
  4. To strengthen the integration of the European and Latin American Physics communities. 


Network Objectives

The HELEN network will be essential to integrate, consolidate and booster the collaborations existing since more than a decade in the field of High Energy physics between Latin America and Europe. It will use the mobility of personnel as a basis:  
  1. to provide specialized training for young Latin American scientists; 
  2. to contribute to the modernization of physics education in Latin America; 
  3. to foster the scientific collaboration in Fundamental Physics between Latin America and Europe by using the existing or foreseen large facilities, 
  4. to contribute to the technological development of Latin America through the HEP associated technologies. 

Co-ordinator
Name(s): 
MAIANI   
First Name(s):
Luciano
Academic Title:
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Position: Full Professor    

Co-ordinating Institution
Institution:
Università degli Studi di Roma, "La Sapienza" 
Unit: Dipartimento di Fisica  
Telephone:  0039 06 4452 825   
Fax : 0039 06 4957697   
E-mail: Luciano.Maiani@roma1.infn.it
WEBPage: http://www.phys.uniroma1.it